Automatic bobbin handling and spooler loading mechanism



Feb. 13, 1968 R. D. LIVINGSTON AUTOMATIC BOBBIN HANDLING AND SPOOLER LOADING MECHANISM 21 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Aug. 6, 1965 OOO INVENTOR. RICHARD D. LIVINGSTON OOOOOOOOOOOOOO O N 00, O $8 0000 0000 m H Jv TT I L ATTORNEYS Feb. 13, 1968' R. o. LIVINGSTON AUTOMATlC BOBBIN HANDLINGAND SPOOLER LOADING MECHANISM 21 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 6, 1965 .m M T m G V N mm E D i m A H Y C.B Du 3 mm m w m h\ MRO 1 IN F:

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AUTOMATIC BOBBIN HANDLING AND SPOOLE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Filed Aug. 6, 1965 21 Sheets-Sheet 9 INVENTOR.

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26. THE BOBBIN 42 FROM EACH FILLED HOLDER 28 ON THE CONVEYOR IS DROPPED INTO THE FIRST EMPTY REVERSE POCKET 29 THE CAR REACHES AND THUS BECOMES THE REVERSE BOBBIN 33 FR SUCH WINDING UNIT. THE NEED FOR REFILLING THE HOLDERS WITH NEW BOBBINS IS DETERMINED BY A DEVIC 44 (FIGS. 1, 4, 35, 36 AND 37) FOR SENSING THE MOVEMENT PAST A PREDETERMINED POINT 45 ON A SUCCESSION OF EMPTY CONVEYOR CARS 39 CORRESPONDING TO THE NUMBER OF BOBBINS IN EACH TRANSVERSE ROW ON THE TRAYS 37, THE SIGNAL THUS DERIVED BEING UTILIZED TO INITIATE A CYCLE OF OPERATION OF A PICK-UP AND ELEVATING MECHANISM 40 (FIGS. 5 TO 7 AND 11 TO 16) SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE SPOOLER CONVEYOR 41 AND INCLUDING A VERTICALLY RECIPROCATING FORK 96 WHICH SLIDES THE LEADING TRANSVERSE ROW OF BOBBINS UPWARDLY FROM THE TRAY ALONG CHANNELS 90 TO A LEDGE
 102. A PUSHER 196 TRANSFERS THESE BOBBINS SIDEWISE ACROSS THE LEDGE INTO THE POCKETS 46 OF AN ENDLESS FEEDER CONVEYOR 47 (FIGS. 1, 3, 4, 7 AND 18 TO 24) WHICH MOVES IN SYNCHRONISM WWITH THE SPOOLER CONVEYOR 41 AND PREVENTS THE SUCCESSIVE BOBBINS 42 OF THE ELEVATED GROUP AT A PREDETERMINED POINT 48 (FIG. 1, 4, 18 AND 20) AS THE RESPECTIVE EMPTY CARS 39 BY WHICH THE SIGNAL WAS ORIGINATED PASS THIS SAME POINT. AT THIS POINT, THE BOBBINS ARE DROPPED ONE BY ONE INTO THE HOLDERS OF THE PASSING CARS AND ARE CARRIED THEREBY ON AROUND THE SPOOLER FRAME, EACH BOBBIN ARE DROPPPED INTO THE FIRST RESERVE POCKETS FOUND TO BE EMPTY. DIFFERENT GROUPS OF THE WINDING UNITS OF THE SPOOLER MAY BE ASSIGNED TO THE HANDLING OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF THREADS, THE BOBBINS OF WHICH ARE DEPOSITED SELECTIVELY IN THE PROPER RESERVE POCKETS OF THE WINDING UNITS, THE SAME INTERMEDIATE CONVEYOR 47 BEING UTILIZED TO TRANSFER THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF BOBBIN GROUPS TO THE PROPPER CARS OF THE MAIN CONVEYOR
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